As early as 1929, Benjamin Fondane is interested in the personality of Arthur Rimbaud, the disputed wonder-child of the French literature. After having its attention attracted by surrealists commentaries, especially those of André Breton, Fondane will find, from the perspective of the spiritual meeting with Lev $estov, a new way of approaching Rimbaud’s creation. Its final form will materialize in one of the amples essais, and also between the most originals from the bibliography who concerns the poet: Rimbaud le voyou. Left unfinished and published posthumoustly (1947), with a preface writen by Jean Cassou (who called it „supreme book”), the essay dedicated to Charles Baudelaire (Baudelaire et l’expérience du gouffre) comes to continue the ideas exposed in Faux traité d’esthétique and in Rimbaud le voyou. We also must specify that Baudelaire’s work constantly was the target of Fundoianu’s interpretative preoccupations, even since the period of its first literary attempts.
Keywords: Benjamin Fondane, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, vagabond, abysm